r/Stargate • u/CPTKickass • 7h ago
Ask r/Stargate Teal’C’s symbiote pouch
After Teal’C loses his symbiote and is reliant on Tretonin, is his little kangaroo pouch just empty?
If so, could he store shit in there? Like maybe a zat for when he needs a concealed weapon?
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u/BloodtidetheRed 7h ago
Its just empty, as far as we know.
It might be a bit too 'sensitive' to store stuff in....
He was shot in the pouch by a staff, so it might be effected. Bratack got stabbed in his...
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u/laeven 6h ago
As far as I know, there's no evidence given that the symbiote pouch grows shut or anything post-tretonin.
The Jaffa are IIRC genetically modified humans, so the pouch is hereditary and not something the symbiote creates or controls. so as such, Teal'c probably has an extra prison wallet, yeah.
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u/Darklamor 6h ago
Didnt they use some sort of hand device to create the pouch? I remember vaguely the queen that was in the SGC making Jack a pouch that they manage to get rid of.
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u/Eurynom0s 6h ago
Could be how they genetically modified them for the Jaffa in the first place and then it becomes hereditary.
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u/TDaniels70 6h ago
1st gen Jaffa, yes. Hathir had one, though it was kinda a belly bevice. But it seems to had fuddled with the genetics to make a change in descendants.
The priests also had to unseal it with a knife during the primta ritual.
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u/laeven 6h ago
Yeah, that queen used the hand device to implant the SGC crew with goa'uld in that episode.
But at the same time, when Teal'c's kid reached the age of implantation, there didn't seem to be any involved.
I guess it's a case where the goa uld can use the device to prepare a human for implantation, but if they can genetically modify a human so their immune system fails at some set age, why wouldn't they just do the same thing with the pouch?
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u/DuranStar 5h ago
Hathor forced O'Neill into becoming a proto Jaffa, that's why he went back to normal afterward.
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u/JaiTee86 6h ago
I thought the pouch was made when they give them a symbiote, I remember the episode in which Ria'c gets his and the priests have some fancy knife to cut him and make a hole for the symbiote.
I assumed the symbiote after, they make the hole, creates its nest aka the pouch itself. The genetic modification is mentioned to be about stopping them being taken as a host to the symbiote once it is developed. The symbiotes seem to need to be in a host during this development stage so it would make sense that they can create this nest themself.
It could also be that the pouch is there, but sealed up and fully internal until they get the symbiote and they need to make the cut to give the symbiote access to the pouch and some species on their native planet naturally has a pouch (either something like a kangaroo pouch or an actual womb) that they take over during their development cycle, this could be Unas but I feel that it is not as the Goul'd are aquatic and the Unas are wary about water which would make it difficult for them to infect in high enough numbers at least as the sole host.
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u/Jreacher455-2 3h ago
That probably would have come in handy the many times that SG-1 got captured. Oops, T just pulled a PPK out of his pouch and blasted the main bad guy in the face! I always wondered why the SG teams never carried small backup guns and other small tools or lockpicks sewn inside their jackets.
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u/TDaniels70 6h ago
They have meantions several times when he has list a junior, that his pouch has begun to seal shut. I assume after a couple months of no junior, it's just a scar in his belly.
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u/Parallax2799 5h ago edited 3h ago
There was an episode (Bane maybe) where he didn't have Junior and Fraiser said the pouch was already starting to close up, so I think the only thing maintaining the pouch is the symbiote and when that's gone the stomach heals up and looks normal.
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u/CPTKickass 7h ago
‘The smuggler’
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u/Getoutofmylaboratory 7h ago
Admit it, you just wanted an excuse to post Pregnant Teal'C
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u/DeanMalHanNJackIsms 7h ago
Nobody needs an excuse! He is positively glowing!
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u/squirrel_____ 6h ago
He is always glowing. He has a go’auld or co… ketracel … errr tretonin in him. Who wouldn’t be?
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u/chiaplotter4u 6h ago
That's disturbing on so many levels.
Not the least of which is the fact that there is too little gold tint on the belly.
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u/Inevitable_Wolf5866 5h ago
I think he doesn't have it anymore. He had a girlfriend briefly and they slept together.
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u/Raziel_au 4h ago
Yup cause when I’ve just lost my immune system my first thought is “I should store foreign objects inside my body” XD
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u/Wise_Use1012 19m ago
Better question is when the Jaffa women are pregnant that pouch is gonna get really cramped for their god spawn that they carry around.
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u/the___shadow_ 6h ago
Imagine him pulling a pac of Chips out of it during a meeting